Superb Scottie Scheffler Posts career-friendly major round to move into threatening open guidance

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When Scottie Scheffler is still struggling with Why He wants to win the open championship, he does a remarkable job to hide it.

Three days after his extensive, existential ruminant about the fleeting fulfillment of the success, the world No. 1 on Friday tore through the Royal Portrush course with the lowest big round of his career to take over a lead to the weekend in Northern Ireland.

Eight birdies raised the American on a seven-below 64 round and shot the 65, which he shot on the way to his third big crown at the PGA championship in May. Only centimeters denied him to make you better than his efforts around a third birdie in a row in a row.

Already with a total of 10 under parliament, it is a threatening sign for its competitors that the favorite before the tournament in a tournament looks so comfortable that he was usually more difficult to bend after his sky-high standards to bow to his will.

It remains the sole event in which Scheffler has not yet recorded a top 5 finish. Only two of the 29-year-old's 15 top 10 major came at the oldest tournament of the game.

But even wildly fluctuating weather does not seem to prevent him from finding out everything at his fifth open start.

“We come to the first hole, it is still sunny. Then you suddenly look around and it is super dark and rain. You are like 'Boy, I wonder how long it will take,” said Scheffler reporters to his return to the clubhouse.

“Fortunately, it didn't pour all the time. We only had four or five holes in which it really came down, and I was able to take advantage of the holes in which we had good weather.”

The England Matt Fitzpatrick in England is located after shooting of 66, a run of four straight birdies after the curve, the latest sign of a return to his best game.

The 30-year-old won the US Open in 2022, but since the last win of an event in October 2023 he has suffered a cratered format, experiencing the “lowest” feeling of his career after missing the average with 78 and 72 at the player championship in March.

However, a bound eighth in the US Open indicated that something clicked, whereby the world No. 59 is now full of conviction that he can accept the challenge of Scheffler.

“I would not say that I absolutely feel so much pressure … He will have the expectation of going out and dominating,” said Fitzpatrick.

“He is an extraordinary player. He is number 1 in the world and we see tiger-like stuff. I think the pressure is that he wins the golf tournament. For me, of course, I hope that I will have more housing support than he, but it is an exciting position for me because I was at the beginning of this year because I was this year.”

Hunter Harman and the “most beautiful man in China” Li in the hot persecution

The American Brian Harman and China's Haotong Li lead the Chasing Pack, the couple shoots 65 or 67 to return to the weekend.

Two years ago, Harman achieved an identical second round on the way to a six -shot win in Royal Liverpool, when his love for hunting became a basic topic of press conferences and a controversy for some British tabloids.

“I was curious why everyone asked so many questions,” he considered after his Bogey-Free Friday.

“I didn't know that everyone was so angry about it. It is a hill on which I will die. I'll sleep like a baby tonight.”

Li may not have the main pedigree of his American counterpart, but the world No. 111 has history outdoors. The four-time European Tour winner completed a breathtaking conclusion of 63 in Royal Birkdale in 2017 to take third place and register the best of all time of a Chinese golfer in a men's major.

It is a source of trust for a player who is not missing, and Li has a wedge with the words: “Haotong is the most beautiful man in China.”

“I took a picture [of the club] For Phil Mickelson, he wrote an SMS and he goes: “Shame for your country”. It was fun, ”said Li to reporters.

“I think if I play my best, I can compete with someone,” he added.

Harman and Li sat three shots in front of a five-part group level at five-below parliamentary level with the American duo Chris Gotterup and Harris English, Scotland's Robert Macintyre, the Englishman Tyrrell Hatton and Rasmus Højgaard in Denmark.

The home hero Rory McIlroy has turned away from the discounts and shooting 69, an improvement in the one and off opening that leaves him with work to secure what a storybook sixth career major would be.

“I was here and there a little close to my best in the first two days in small days,” said McIlroy, Seven shots by Scheffler.

“I have to have everything under control and let everything shoot over the weekend to take a run.”

The 36-year-old is three under par and is sure to relieve a cut line that he lacks in tears when the major returned to Royal Portrush for the first time in 68 years.

The two-time American open champion Bryson Dechameau had determined to meet the same fate after hunting seven over 78 in the first round, just to follow it with a breathtaking 65, in order to achieve a one-over-parypiece directly on the cut brand.

Historically, the American found it more difficult to adapt his big game to the left-wing courses across the pond. The open, the only major that he does not yet have in the top five finish, but Dechameau looked full when he made a 13-stroke improvement.

“I woke up this morning and said:” You know what, I can't give up, “said the American.

“My father always told me that I should never give up, keep going, and I did that today. I was proud of the way I struggled back, really kept through with some emotionally difficult moments and not to stick together and not make me angry and beating clubs and throwing things and everything I wanted.”

But many big names will leave the Causeway coast prematurely, with 2021 Victor Collin Morikawa, 2022-champion Cameron Smith and the five-time big winner Brooks Koepka, which is all good for the weekend.